Gray's Inn Square Numbers 6, 7 and 8 and Attached Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Terraced chambers. 21 related planning applications.
Gray's Inn Square Numbers 6, 7 and 8 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- woven-attic-thrush
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Terraced chambers
- Address
- Gray's Inn Square Numbers 6, 7 and 8 and Attached Railings, WC1R 5AZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52015, -0.11316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gray's Inn Square numbers 6, 7, and 8 are three terraced chambers located at the north end of Gray's Inn Square, built around 1676 and restored around 1950 due to war damage. The buildings are constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and feature brick bands between the floors, topped with a tiled roof.
The structures rise four storeys and include cellars, with each building having five windows. They have a stone doorcase adorned with consoles and a broken segmental pediment featuring a ball at the center. The windows are framed with gauged red brick flat arches and flush frames, complete with boxing and glazing bars. The eaves cornice is made of wood blocks and is bracketed.
Inside, the buildings retain some panelled rooms. Numbers 6 and 8 have staircases with turned balusters and column newels, while number 7 features a dog-leg staircase. Number 8 also has a carved wood fireplace.
Additionally, there are attached cast-iron railings with urn finials surrounding the areas in front of the buildings.
Local climate
Gray's Inn Square Numbers 6, 7 and 8 and Attached Railings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 21 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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